The Great Escape

Helping Daddy

Jax "helped" Josh put the locks on the cabinets and drawers....I guess they're related, cuz Jaxon was fascinated by the drill!

Sneaky like a ninja

We're nearing the 11 month mark! Jax has been learning all sorts of new things (some good, some not so much my favorite). He crawls up steps, and back down. Going down, he's pretty cautious until he gets to the bottom and then he sort of flops off them like he's relieved to be on flat ground again. His crawling is getting speedier and he is getting into everything!

This morning, I was working on a project in the foyer and had put Jax in the jumper so he could bounce for a bit and I noticed that I hadn't heard him talking for a couple minutes. When I turned to go downstairs, he was at the bottom of the stairs! One of the new things he learned this week was how to retrieve toys after he throws them on the floor, while he's still in his jumper. He bends over and hooks his legs so he doesn't fall face first on the floor, grabs the toy and then sits up long enough to throw it someplace else on the floor and do the same thing all over again. He has adapted this skill enough to lean far enough to crawl his way out of the jumper once he's upside down, I guess. He escaped from the jumper 4+ times today. We are in BIG trouble once he's walking, too! It's so much fun to watch Jax and his daddy play :)

Our first family picture since....June?

Look Out, World!

I'm nearly a year old!!

Today is Jaxon's 10 month birthday! We had preemie clinic this afternoon. According to the occupational therapist and the doctor (I think he was in agreement anyways, it's hard to understand his accent sometimes), developmentally Jax is essentially measuring at the 10 months old that he is. This means we are ahead of the game (adjusted age wise) and right on track (chronological age wise).

He was 19 pounds even, and 27.75 inches long. Weight wise, he's apparently doing amazing, gaining at least 57 grams a day. (They expect 38 grams a day in weight gain) But he does eat constantly and anything that we will let him eat. "He does not have, how you say....fat tummy, so there's no need to worry," is what the doctor told me. That's a good thing, cuz he will eat all day every day if you let him!

As far as the rest life goes, he is crawling like crazy. Apparently, just crawling isn't fun enough for him and so he's also pulling himself up on furniture and today at the clinic he climbed a step on his own. He likes big people food better than mushy baby food but will eat whatever you put on a spoon. Everyday, Jax gets a little more independent. He doesn't like us to hold his bottle for him anymore, since he can do it himself. Jax now has 8 teeth and chews on everything. If he gets excited to see you, he'll cuddle up and then bite at you (a habit I hope doesn't last long ~ we've both been bit a few times!). I'm hoping that those bites evolve into the kisses he's learning to give!

Two more months and he's a year old....scary!

Happy Valentine's Day

Jax got to see nearly the whole family over the course of his first Valentine's Day weekend. Yesterday, we went home to see my Grandpa Scott, Grandma Joy, and uncle Tanner.... Today, we had lunch with Grandpa Jim, Grandma Linda, aunt Tina and uncle Keith, and aunt Shannon (and Mary, Melvin, Raiden, Cin'Que, and LaNora). We covered nearly the whole family tree!



I'm glad we got to see the people we love!! :)

Round 2

Well, we didn't get rid of the ear infection like we thought. Saturday night/Sunday morning, Jax woke up pretty miserable and didn't sleep so well. I thought maybe he was just teething. Sunday morning, he almost threw up in our bed and then he DID throw up while I was getting ready for the day. I started to wonder about his ears...

Today was our 10 day check up for the ear infection and we discovered that the amoxicillin didn't do it's job and so Jax was prescribed augmentin (I think that's what it's called) ~ a stronger version of amoxicillin. 10 days of that and another recheck and we'll be back to normal! I hope.